Syaru Shirley Lin, Compton Visiting Professor in World Politics at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, taught Libby in her politics seminar, “Taiwan’s China Dilemma,” and said she was impressed by his research and his writing. “I was so stunned with his first paper about Taiwan’s judicial system that I looked into his background and transcript,” she said. “I then realized he was actually much more focused on Spanish and specifically Brazil, yet still taking Chinese all these years at UVA. Later in the semester, I was a guest speaker in an advanced Chinese class and found him in the class, speaking excellent Chinese.”
Syaru Shirley Lin
